Deviee j



1). J. SMITH.

HARNESS RACK.

(No Model.)

N0.331,565. Patented 1360.1, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFice.

DEVIER J. SMITH, OF MOGOOK, NEBRASKA.

HARNESS-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 331,565, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed May 25, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEVIER JAMES SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mo- Oook, in the county of Red Willow and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in HarnessRacks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in harness-racks. I

The object of my invention is to provide a harness-rack which shall be made suitable to hold in position and in its ordinary shape the harness of a single and double team of horses.

Heretofore the harness when removed from the horse or horses is allowed to suspend itself on a nail or hook, causing the harness to become ill-shaped and lose its natural form.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters refer to similar parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation of the harness-rack for single harness. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec tion of the single-harness rack. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a double-harness rack supported inside of a folding box.

The single-harness racks have a provision for the suspension of a breast-collar, backpad, breeching, and bridle.

B represents the breeching-support, which is nailed into the two pieces A A, also is provided with a projection, a, to prevent the breeching from sliding off.

S is a strip of zinc, sufficiently wide and long to cover the top surface of the wood, so that the harness,whicl1 becomes moist by perspiration, (called in common parlance the Serial No. 166,549. (No model.)

dotted lines in Fig. l resting on the surface of the breeching-support B, the metal being so thin that it is fastened with nails.

0 is the support for back-pad, which also has a zinc over the wood.

D is the support for the hames.

E is the support for bridle.

The last two supports are fastened to the cross-pieces b by nails, the crosspieces fastened to the frames A A. F are holes in the frames to suspend to a wall.

In the double-harness rack, which is represented in Fig. 3, the support B, which is the modification, supports a breast-collar.

I am aware that prior to my invention harness racks or brackets for suspending harness have been made with a bed-plate supporting the projection to suspend the harness, such as Patent No. 220,730, 1879. I do not claim such a combination; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In aharness-rack, the combination, with a frame consisting of the uprights A and crossbars b, of supports, each having a front flange, a, and a protecting-strip of zinc, substantially as described.

DEVIER .ll. SMITH.

Witnesses:

MATTHIAS L. LouoKs, GEORGE LAVERTY. 

